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Word: guatemalans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under pressure from Edwards, the FBI began to look into the threats on July 17. Later that day armed men abducted Ana Maria Lopez, 31, a Guatemalan woman involved in helping Central American refugees. After warning her to stop criticizing the Salvadoran government, the kidnapers dumped her in Pomona, Calif., 25 miles east of Los Angeles. "They told her that just as people are killed in Central America, they can be killed here," says Linton Joaquin, director of the Central American Refugee Center in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Squads Invade California | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...statutory punishment." The Internal Revenue Service fined her $500 for filing a "frivolous" return. Todd and the courts battle on. Here and there, sanctuary, sanctuary, sanctuary is all the word. Kay Kelly of Tucson, for example, was placed under house arrest for refusing to give the name of the Guatemalan she had sheltered. She contended her right to keep silent on the name was a religious issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Against My Rights! | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...strong human rights guidelines. The left must use its present strength not only to eliminate contra aid, but also to forge a new foreign policy in Central America. For the United States' current war in Central America involves not only the contras, but also the El Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan military...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Foreign Policy Contra-diction | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

According to the Guatemalan Seismological Station in Guatemala City, a second tremor registered 4.5 and struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquakes Hit San Salvador | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

...people of Cascara, a mythical last remnant of the British Empire that the British would be only too happy to get rid of. Michael Caine is the colonial governor, sincerely concerned with the welfare of the people and his ganja crop. Brenda Vaccaro is the governor's Guatemalan wife with an unsavory past and personality. She doesn't get an "A" for originality with her Charo imitation and dialogue...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Drinks, Anyone? | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

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